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Power of WOM

Posted by: Sarah on: January 29, 2009

Two nice little examples which show the effect of WOM (word of mouth) and/or a successful PR campaign.
Firstly the impact Jonathan Ross (@wossy) & Stephen Fry (@stephenfry) have had on Twitter.

This graph from Hitwise (taken from Techcrunch) shows the large increase in traffic since November 2008. Since Ross’s return to his regular TV slot last [...]

Microblogging Search has Evolved

Posted by: Sarah on: January 20, 2009

Those of you that read my blog and/ or follow me on Twitter will know and have noticed how my initial resentment towards Twitter has vanished and it is almost becoming fully integrated into my life to the extent that I ashamedly give it more attention than my blog.
Naturally at it is slowly becoming an [...]

Getting down with the Twitterer’s

Posted by: Sarah on: December 16, 2008

Those in the Twitterering world would be well aware of the Twitter event that happened last night called Twinterval ( made up of Twitter + Winter + Festival) Although tickets were in hot demand and sold out almost instantly a new batch was released I was kindly invited by Adrian who was one of the [...]

The Semantic Web & Twitter

Posted by: Sarah on: December 9, 2008

The geeky side of me has quite an interest in the semantic web, and so that and my latest interest and involvement with Twitter meant that this post on the Social Media Influence blog caught my attention: How Twitter could beat Google to the semantic web.
The article outlines an idea by Nick Bilton on how [...]

Where is the time going?

Posted by: Sarah on: December 4, 2008

I don’t know what has been going on this week, everything has gone crazy! Christmas is only three weeks away but it can’t come quick enough! A little update on what I’ve been up to:
I’ve started reading ‘Secrets of Social Media Marketing’ by Paul Gillin after it was recommended by a couple of other bloggers [...]

All of A Twitter

Posted by: Sarah on: November 24, 2008

Since I have begun posting about Twitter it feels like the world is now revolving around Twitter with every where I look another Twitter anouncement. A post on Engage PR introduced me to Qwitter, a tool that allows you to see who is no longer following you, so basically when even your friends are bored [...]

More Twitter Madness

Posted by: Sarah on: November 21, 2008

While reviewing the headlines this morning I saw this article on Tech Crunch – ‘Stalk that Twitterer‘.
Readers of my blog will be aware of my aversions to Twitter and how I will be soon reluctantly signing up to keep people up to date every time I go to the loo or what ever else I’m [...]

Missing: The Need to Twitter

Posted by: Sarah on: November 18, 2008

I feel almost ashamed to admit this but I just don’t feel the need to Twitter. I understand what it is and why people like it but it’s a bit like the status box on Facebook which I also never use.
I just don’t feel the need to announce to the world what I’m doing or [...]

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